A motorist died after his car slammed into the back of a stationary road maintenance truck in Tai Po early yesterday. Fong Ka-chung, 34, was driving along Tolo Highway when the crash happened outside Kwong Fuk Estate at 3.30am. Suffering multiple injuries, he was taken to Prince of Wales Hospital and declared dead soon after. The car was towed to a government vehicle plant for examination.

Popular television chef Kylie Kwong is in town promoting her new series, My China. The nine-episode Discovery Travel & Living show follows her effort to learn the food culture of various regions of China by travelling to each location.

It was only Kwong's second trip to the mainland but, unlike her first trip in 1998, this time she was prepared.

Elanne Kwong almost left the entertainment industry to train as a vet but her singing career was saved by a cartoon cat

Several years following her acting debut in an independent film, Elanne Kwong finally got the chance to shine thanks to the robotic cat Doraemon. The Canto-pop singer almost gave up her dream of becoming an actress and singer to pursue a career as a vet.

Crisis creates opportunity, they say, and tiny, 'mosquito' publishers with quirky, offbeat catalogues found theirs in the wake of the Sars downturn. MGuru, set up by former marketing executive Carmen Kwong Wing-suen, is among the most successful.